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Thread #26695   Message #322980
Posted By: Little Hawk
19-Oct-00 - 08:55 PM
Thread Name: Orillia Procrastinators Club may form...
Subject: RE: Orillia Procrastinators Club may form...
No, Don, that was the Tudhope Car committee. They are trying to market a car (called the Tudhope) that was designed and built in Orillia back in either the 20's or the early 30's, I think. There is a surviving Tudhope still driveable. I've seen it. It looks kind of like a Model T Ford convertible.

The Tudhopes, by the way, are one of the very rich old families that founded Orillia, and according to local gossip still figure they own the place. I hear that they were quite stuffy about giving any recognition to Gordon Lightfoot, because his family lived on the poor side of town...the wrong side of the tracks, as it were. I consider them to be members of the get-a-life club, while they probably consider me to be beneath their notice...if they've noticed me at all. Stephen Leacock satirized the rich stuffed shirts of Orillia savagely in books like "Arcadian Adventures of the Idle Rich", and they did not appreciate it one bit at the time, although they've grown nostalgic about him since.

The people I really admire are those who have yet to post to this thread, proving (hopefully) that they are real, died-in-the-wool procrastinators.

People like Art Thieme, and Zebedee, and Spaw...

Of course, it could be that they just don't like this thread, and feel it is a complete waste of their time...but.......NAWWWWWW.......impossible.